Well, the French don't like to rush so nearly a year after the planned launch of 7 new delicate fishtail carving gouges designed by British master carver Chris Pye, the forge manager at Auriou Toolworks Michel Auriou has stuck his head above the parapet to announce that they are "almost ready to be finished". Yes, [...]

Michel Auriou will attend the 6th European Woodworking Show at Cressing Temple Barns, Essex, England on September 12/13 2015.He will have a full array of his tools on sale including some stone carving tools.It is hoped he will also have samples of his new Chris Pye fishtail gouges for you to see and pre-order.Approximately 80-100 [...]

Michel Auriou will be demonstrating his hand stitched rasps, rotary rasps and carving tools at Magma's Show on September 26-28 at Aurolzmunster, Austria.This is a real treat for woodturners in particular with the best line up of demonstrators under one roof in Europe at any given time.Japanese Hand Tools, carving, turning and much more besides [...]

There are 11 tools in master carver Chris Pye's basic tool set and 14 tools in his lettering selection (although these don't have to be used only for lettering).As part of our Chris Pye programme we will be adding 6 further tools to the basic tool set in 2014.Basically we will add 3 small gouges [...]

A pretty mad start to the year which has seen a sharp upturn in demand for our rasps, rifflers and the Chris Pye Carving Tools. So just to let you know that we are currently processing web orders in 3-6 weeks. Thanks for your support of our small forge. Keep up busy as we love [...]

Chris Schwarz is coming to Europe this July to teach students to make the Anarchists Tool Chest.The one that Chris makes will be auctioned after the course and it will be full of great tools including 3 hand cut rasps and a set of 11 Chris Pye carving tools donated by Forge de Saint Juery, [...]

New Lettering Chisels and Gouges
English mastercarver Chris Pye is working with Auriou to create a set of 14 lettering tools for wood.
7 are already available but 7 more will be available from October.
The 7 new tools include gouges.
These will be avaialble through most of the worldwide stockists.

Michel Auriou will attend the 5th European Woodworking Show at Cressing Temple Barns, Essex, England on September 21-22 2013.
He will be supporting his UK agent, Classic Hand Tools and he will have a full array of his tools on sale including stone carving tools.
Stonecarver Rachel Huggett will also be demonstrating some of the Auriou stonecarving [...]